Créolité and Creolization

Increased and accelerated processes of cultural syncretism have produced new configurations of identity for which theories of hybridity, metissage and cosmopolitanism have been deployed and reworked in order to capture the polycentric and polysemic aspects of a new political philosophy of the Other. Under pressure from localized resistances, these terms no longer provide adequate frameworks for articulating the critical issues of difference and the asymmetry of evolving contemporary cultures. Beginning as a full-fledged literary movement in the late 1980s in the French Caribbean, Creolite ventured into the "chaos" produced by history to reclaim nationalist Creole identities.